GPOADmin

Simplified Group Policy management and administration

Securing your domain controllers, servers and desktops is crucial to keeping Group Policy in check, but it’s not always an easy task if you don’t have the right tools in place. With GPOADmin, you can automate critical Group Policy management tasks, reducing your costs and eliminating time-consuming manual processes.

GPOADmin enables you to quickly and effectively administer changes to Group Policy objects (GPOs) to:

Support change management best practices

Enable effective approval processes

Secure your critical data

You’ll also be able to easily verify, compare, update and rollback GPO versions over time to confirm the consistency of various GPO settings.

Approval-based workflow

Delete version history

Delete the history of multiple versions to help you manage and reduce the size of your backup store.

Workflow commenting

Track requests, reviews and approvals with comments and e-mail notifications at any stage in the process. Requests to modify GPOs can also be approved or rejected by email without opening the GPOADmin console.

Custom email templates

Enable customization of e-mail notifications with specific text and/or attachments by role (e.g., help desk).

Intuitive scheduling

Immediately implement or schedule approved changes to simplify the process.

Enhanced Group Policy comparison

Verify setting consistency with side-by-side GPO version comparisons.

Group Policy lineage

Test pre-production GPO clones before rolling them out to ensure their impact on the live environment.

Hidden pre-production GPO

Limit pre-production GPO access to you and other selected administrators.

Protected settings policies

Define a list of GPO settings with predetermined values that must exist and cannot be modified.

Object management

Assign responsibility for specific policies, either at the object- or GPOADmin container-level, to specific users, enabling administrators to identify who is responsible for managing specific policies.

GPO check-in and check-out, locking

Easily prevent simultaneous editing conflicts or unwanted and unauthorized changes to production GPOs.

Pre- and post- actions

Enable users to execute custom actions before or after a GPOADmin change to facilitate integration with internal processes and systems.

Resources

In this demo, we show how to create a container in GPOADmin, allowing an administrator to assign very specific tasks to individual users who are responsible for managing GPOs. Click "Learn More" to download a free trial of GPOADmin:

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